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Third week of August.  My wife finally got through the “Twilight” Series. Now she is re-reading them and has informed me the movie has been moved up. woo! 

Then there was the whole downtime of blog.mikedopp.com to do some much needed upgrade/updates. I am still debating the whole give up on blogengine.net or not.

It has been a slow week. However I did get a new mountain bike from Thann. Thanks Thann.

Huge shoutout to the dude at tinytwitter.com. Updated his app to talk to both maps.live.com and twitpic with the tinytwitter application. Much impressed. Keep up the great work.

Thinking halo3 or rockband party this friday. If your interested drop me a line. Xbox gamertag:mikedopp

Can’t forget anyone seeing issues with Google indexing lately? I keep getting alerts from 4 months ago. News still and forever breaking it seems.

Shall we get to links?

Play Olympic (silverlight) games at home. Woo Hooo!

How to detect the social sites your users well use.

C# Developer Search engine. Hint it uses google.

How to get google to stop indexing your site. Hint use asp.net2.0

How to add encrypted Website Payments to your ASP.nET site. didn't I...

Giga Fone its not megaphone its not teraphone its gigaphone

Google changing ranking engine again. Wow they are trying to be live.com

How to make money from your blog? well um adsense and then pray the visitors come.

* Probably my Favorite Link of the Week* Math online. Cheat I dare ya.

Using your browser history to determine gender? 99 percent male.. wheew I am safe.

Rest in Peace? No RIP

Add another tagging source to your windows live writer. Hint Mydigitallife.

Woo Hoo a goog open source Sql Client. However Buddy is a bit far!

If your a web developer and use asp.net and you like free controls enjoy.

Ok here is the mother of libraries or rapid library download viruses to your hearts content.

Talk Soup? really? NO! Talk Shoe. Talk into your soul.. of your shoe?

Vista Firewall Control called Sphinx. a Sphinter says what? Sorry had to...

The question is does google really care about your markup? The real question is are you feeling lucky punk? well? do ya?

Look at lan? why not look at wan? guess its over a metro lan.

50 free apps for tin foil hat wearers. wow that works well.

SQL reference page as if. :$Little_RobbieTables.

another link to get you into trouble with the RIAA

and you thought gravatar was deluxe. Here Comes Avatar Deluxe.

The perfect 3 column Web page layout. Perfect really. I have a bridge to sell you...

 

So it was a weak links Monday. I have a new bike and I need to enjoy it. Till next Monday um ttfn as katie would say.

 

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Addictions have been the topic of the week.  My wife and a friend of mine (Blake) Got me addicted to Sonic Slushes. The black berry flavor you don’t see on the menu. Yeah that good.

My wife along with every woman in the United States have found an addiction to “Twilight”. I think my wife was a late comer to the whole thing which means she has made up for it by reading 3 of the 4 books in 4 days.

Rest in Peace: Bernie Mac. Isaac Hayes. Dang it was a death weekend.

Yes the Olympics started and I was stoked about it (Microsoft and NBC announced this awesome silverlight web site (This was at MIX08) for live streaming of video (real time. guess that’s what live means.) However NBC lied and they delivered a crappy overweight with special “games” as well as dead links to crap I don’t care about. To be fair there is some good info about the athletes and back story to them. I just was hoping that I could watch it streaming and well all that was promised. Guess I should not have expected more than mediocre (look for links in my list for real streaming).

New guy (bryan) sized my sites up this past week and was amazed that my blog was actually cool. Also thanks to him he made me realize that my PR or Page Rank is now 4. So I must say thanks and well woot. However he was disappointed when I didn’t capitalize (google ads) my site more. mmm…

Also blog.mikedopp.com will be experiencing some issues. I have to down it again and clean up some bad code. Sorry. I know you will miss my links for a few minutes.

Crap almost forgot. Twitter  let me start following again on Wednesday. Thanks to all those who stuck with me and continue to listen to my rants. I try to make them slightly enjoyable.

So on to the long awaited and much loved Links:

Top Ten (I know another one?) Code Search Engines

50 ( Another one? Come on!) Killer online Resources for Computer Science Students

Test early Bad Practices and you!

As Promised Sources for Beijing live:

How to watch the Beijing Olympics (thanks friends of twitter)

Live Streaming and Mean (ok nice)

Where to watch the Olympics Live

*** That was all I could find using twitter and Google in 5 minutes.

One of my favorite 404 messages.

Everyone knows how much I like cable. Have a look at Comcastic issues.

Understanding the main social networks.

Css Tricks using Video ish.

CSS to conquer the world. Really Conquer the world?

How Google index's Flash. mmm...

So eveyone thinks I am only a .NET guy. I like Python.

Microsoft Math. User - cash = Microsoft products path.

Backgrounds and tiles the ultimate source.... Doode!

Killer app for Amazon Watching. umm Killer eh?

20 must have ringtones. Yes these are good.

Free Desktop and presentation software. Yes Free. Free is Free right?

Blog from your windows mobile device. Yes it's not for Iphone sorry.

Video Conversion Software for Free. Do we want to really converse about free?

PDF to Word to html to um paper - printer and such.

Joe Levi found this funny. Gotta check it out.

How to tell if you have been black listed. Email and web domain.

Fonolo Just liked the name. Some thing to do with caller ID and things.

Cant watch the Olympics live streaming? Play them in Silverlight.

Like Delicious? You will like Visualize (hint its for pictures)

Need some textbooks for School? I will take the google hit for this link.

Twellow. Where do you belong on twitter?

Windows updates downloader.

Talkinator. A light wieght messenger for your blog/web site.

 

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I consider myself one of the faithful over at Twitter. Constantly updating my feed or tweet if you will. I follow alot of people just to see what they say on a daily basis.

Especially those within the my geographic area as well as the multiple professionals within the field of work I do which is writing web based applications as well as creating magnificent (I know magnificent a great word) web sites. I could give you a list however that is beyond the scope of this article.

Well since last Monday I have been unable to follow anyone else. Yes I follow around 2000+ twitterpated twitti (twitters for short). I get a steady stream of people following me and I like to reciprocate that by following them as long as the twitter is not a bot, spammer or evil in which I can’t explain.

Going back to what happened on that unfortunate July morning twitter updated their algorithm to get rid of extra bot's and such which I applaud. However the rules killed my ability to follow anyone else. I gave the excuse to my followers or those new to the mikedopp feed that somehow twitter felt I was a bot or other evil doer. Of course that was in humor. I gave twitter until that Thursday to clean up issues from the update and still did not see an improvement.

I went ahead and complained at the Getsatisfaction web site (forums) as well as entered two help tickets. I have yet to get an email, tweet or kiss my butt from twitter. Is twitter too big for the twitter faithful?

So my biggest gripe is that others have 10k+ followers and are able to follow more. Scoble for example?

Please don’t get me wrong I like the idea of keeping too many twitter bot’s and evil doers from signing up and spamming twitter. Using the following limits.

Please Twitter reconsider.

Guess plurk.com or indenti.ca will play nice.

ZDnet Article:Twitter AntiSpam (Zdnet)

 

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Wow what a week. Started off with the new guy and then got sick at the end of the week. Influenza is a cruel virus.

It reduces its host to a nice quiet cold bed next to the toilet. Ah good times, good times.

So in just breaking and really do we care news:

Jason Calicanis decides he is done with blogging. Going back to email lists. um cool I guess. Good luck Jason! I think your are very cool and if that pans out I shall follow you down that path.

Microsoft and Icahn bid for Yahoo and Yahoo says you suck (at least no). mmm…. I think the Yahoo board of directors think they are a driving a submarine cause all they think is dive dive dive (stock market reference). Weak I know. More to come on that one I think.

Meanwhile in the real world no one can afford gas and or buy groceries at the same time. Property tax keeps rising. Thats on the negative note. On the positive side tech jobs are booming again. A wise man told me a while ago that when the economy starts to crash tech jobs are the first to go. So why the reverse? I know; I should watch cnbc more closely for that answer but I have twitter, pownce, plurk and friendfeed accounts to maintain. Shameless plug sorry.

Socially Awkward links (the internet will not make up for what happened in high school –hattip to Megfowler):

SlipStreamed Service Pack 1 install. Vista of Course.

5 mistakes new web developers make

Compose your system -xFruits from the old company fruits

Sanity check 10 dirty little secrets you should know about working in IT

Shorter theasaurus (ror)

Text box themes in CSS

ecalc best online calculator

The Google Gulp Get one while your SEO still works. A non-711 item.

Hackify your SQL DB (database for everyone else)

So you've always wanted to turn your website/blog into a magazine... Here is how.

Create animal characters with your hands.... Fun for the kids.

Have to stay in due to flu symptoms this July? Need some desktop fireworks? Here.

Ever wanted to rock a rhyme like run dmc? Here is how to get started.

State of the Web 2008 Very Cool and fun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Web Safe font tester.

If people bought cars like they buy computers....

Ever need a boot disk?

41 nicest photoshop photo effects. Yes another link of links.

Looking for sober people in ireland?

101 design resource links

23 go resources for code.

Pronunciation on ascii characters.

Essential Life lessons.

hta editor now only if I had a linux server running apache.

Programming Quotes

My favorite of the week:

Google announces lively: (pictured my avatar trying to find something to do. )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And yes I did forget the  Iphone 3G coming out on friday. Wooh Hoo!

Now you can own your very own Unix phone. :)

 

 

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So I am posting this a bit late I know. I went to update the blogengine.net upgrade and well I must of overlooked how many hacks I had made to the software to get it to purr so to speak. Still working on the blog but finally able to post to it.

Enough with my belly aching time to get to your post 4th of July links.

Patriotic Links:

Twitter hall of Shame

Visual Studio 2008 Web Server Here Shell Extension

Make your resume xml friendly (think web service and or soa) mmm.

Css Animation Technique (who needs flash eh)

destroy Flickr uh why?

Down for everyone or just me?

Turn movie and mp3 files into exe files. Very Cool.

Do it yourself Yahoo Resignation Letter

So have to get one of these motor homes/House boats

SilverLight Twitter Client

Turn Xbox360 into a streaming netflix server?

Black Mirror

Gattach make gmail your system email client

Suggestion on what to do when bored at the office

Programmer complexity diagram

For the love of the interview learn how to tie a tie

CSS Only - NO javascript

22 things you didn't know you could get for free

Instant action for game developers (get your mind out of the gutter)

How Social media is like high school

PI Viewer

HTML Button Maker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Till next week we hope the blog stays up. P.S. I have written special css for those who sent me their IP’s (you know who you are).

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